Framing mechanism for moving-picture machines.



B. PROCIOR. V FRAMING MECHANISM FOR MOVING PICTURE MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED IUNE 2l. ISI?.

Patented Mar. 25, 1919.

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W/TNESSS z7 B. A. PROCTOR.

FRAMING MECHANISM FOR MOVING PICTURE MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED IuIIEzI. I9I1.

Patented Mar. 25, 1919.

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mon/IHS B. A. PROCTOR.

FRAMING MECHANISM FOR MOVING PICTURE MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21.1917.

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FRAMING MECIIANISM FOR MOVING PICTURE MACHINES. APPLIc/mourllfn JuNEzl. |911.

1,298,394. Patented Mar. 25, 1919.

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WTNESSES I @im UvA/Enron 5MM/v A. macro/ t A TTORNEYS scribed below and BARTON A. rnocTon, or BRIDGETON,

nATUs CORPORATION, or BRIDGETON,

NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR T0 KI'NOIKON APPA NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION 0F DELAVL'ARE.

FRAMING MECHANISM FOR MOVING-PICTURE MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 25, 1919.

Application led J une 21, 1917. Serial No. 176,054.

To all 'whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, BARTON A. PRocToR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeton, Cumberland county, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new an usefulY Improvements in Framing Mechanism for Moving-PictureMachines, of which the following is a specification. e

My invention relates to moving picture machines of the kind in which a strip of film having consecutive nally disposed thereon is drawn past an aperture through which projection takes place, the film being stopped intermittently when the individual picture and aperture are in registry.

Films of this kind are provided with marginal perforations and sprocket teeth engaging therewith do the work ofdrawing the film through the machine. i'

It often happens that the perforations in' different films do not have exactly the same positions with reference to the'top and bottom of the individual pictures. Sometimes, also, the film stretches in the course of the manipulations to which it is subjected. Or, the film breaks and must be joined together in which case the proper relation of perforations and individual pictures is not always maintained. And, at times, the perforations will tearl or jump out of the sprocket'teeth so as to shift the film linearly with respect to the sprocket. v

All or any of the above happenings will cause the individual registry with the aperture through which it 'is projected so that the image 'on the screen will show parts of two consecutive pictures instead of thewhole ofone.

1t is the object of my invention herein described to provide .a novel and simplified arrangement by means of which anyloss of registry'between picture and aperture can be instantly restored without Ainterrupting the operation of the machine'. With the arrangement of my invention any tendency toward loss of perfect registry may be instantly detected and corrected almost before it has taken place.

My invention resides in the novel constructions and arrangements of parts as dehereinafter claimed.

yMy invention will be better understood by referring lto pictures longitudipicture to get out of drive-s, through the accompanying drawings,

showing a moving picture machine with my invention embodied therein, in which Figure 1 represents a sectional elevation through the display mechanism housing taken along the line 1- -1 of Fig. 5; Fig. 2 is a similar view, vtaken from the left, along the-line 2-2 of Fig. 1, the larger part of the fly wheel being broken away; 3 is a transverse section taken along the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a vertical section, taken from the right, along the line 4-4 of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is an elevation taken from the'right of Fig. 1, the door carrying thel crank handle being left open so as to show certain of the driving gears; Fig. 6 is a transverse section through the rotatable framing element taken along the line 6-6 ofFig. 7; Fig. 7 is an ing elementshown in Fig. 6, the cover plate of the Geneva movement housing being removed; and Fig. 8 represents two views of the compensating slide or sleeve ,for the shutter, one (at the left) being a side elevation, part section thereof, and the other at the right) being an end view.

In the drawings the display mechanism housing 1 is provided with two hinged doors 2, 3, at the right and left respectively, the former carrying the driving crank 4, which protect and give access to the gears which drive the sprockets and the shutter.

Crank 4 acts directly upon main driving gear 5 which, in turn, meshes with gear 6 upon the shaft of which is mounted the upper continuous sprocket 7. Gear 5 also intermediate gears 8, 9, a gear 10 upon whose shaft 11'is mounted the lower continuous sprocket 12. Upon the other end of shaft 11 is fixed a gear 13 which meshes with a gear 14 fixed upon a shaft 15.

Shaft ,15 is centrally mounted in a rotatable support 16 comprising concentric heads 17, 18, united by a web 19. Head .17

is recessed and, provided with a' removable end view, taken from the right, of the framcover 20 having a glassfront 21 thus pro viding an oil tight casing which is partially filled with oil in which are contained and operate the driving member 22 of the Geneva movement, mounted upon one end o fcentral shaft 15, ,and the driven member 23 of the Geneva element, fiXed to shaft 24, also carried' by support 16. The usual intermittent sprocket 25 is fixed upon shaft 24.

The other end of shaft 15 has fixed thereupon a fly wheel 26 forsteadying the operation of the machine, and a `miter gear 27 in mesh with a similar gear 28 mounted upon one end of a divided shaft 29 whose vor upon shaft and this rotational movement is conveniently accomplished by means of a handle or framing lever 33 pivotally attached to the housing 1 at 34 and joined by a link 35 to an arm 36 Xed to and projecting radially from headv 18.

A second link-37 is also pivotally attached' to head 18 and has its outer end similarly joined to a' crank arm 38 which is fixed to a short shaft 39 itself carried in bearings fined to the housing.

Fixed upon shaft 39 is a fork 40 whose ends carry oppositely disposed pins 41 which engage an'annular recess 42 formed in a collarv which is provided on the sleeve 43 f surrounding the divided ends of shaft 29.

Sleeve 43 has two substantially oppositely disposed internal slots, 44, 45, the former being parallel to the'aXis of the sleeve and extending from the front end of theY sleeve Y (left lig.` 3) to nearly the rear end thereof,

and the latter being spirally out and extendy from the rear end of the sleeve (right Fig. 3) to nearly the front end thereof.

Each of the opposed ends-of divided shaft 29 is provided with a pin 46'and these pins are engaged, respectively, -`with the two slots ,",Ihe' operation ofthe invention is as follows.: The' crank 4 being turned clockwise (as viewed from the vleft of lFig. 1') the vaf *Sprocket 25, being' driven throu rious gears will all 'rotate asindicated by. lthe several attached arrows as can readilybe seen. 'The upper and lower sprockets,

and '12,5 be continuousglg driven,

' .fiievaYV movement, 2 2, "23, however,` ,will rotate l intermittentl lacejthe Vsuccessive pictures 'ofthe synchronismwith exposure periods of.

47. fore-the aperture 4 8 in the shutter 32. o Thisassumes, ofcourse, that :gem-S, shutter and lilm have been-properly set before the' machine .is started running.

Suppose, however, that the intermittent,l

sprocket stops so as to leave theindividual pictures of the film either too high or too low` withV reference to the aperture 48. Or suppose that, in the operation of the machine, the teeth ofthe intermittent sprocket should gain or lose linearly with respect to the film l bya distance equal to that betweenfadjacent" or more `rem'ote'lm s rocket holes,a happeningwhich often ta es place, as is well known to those skilled in the art. such case the operator need only move the framing lever 33- one way or the other without interrupting in any way his uniform operation of the driving crank 4. Such movement of the lever 33 will rotate the support 16 in its bearings and about the shaft 15 through the action of link 35 and arm 36.

As the support '16 thus rotates in its bearings, the shaft 24 and intermittent sprocket 25 will rotate about 'shaft 15 without disturbance of the coperative relation betweenV the two elements of the Geneva movement. With reference to the aperture 48, it is clear that this rotational movement of the sprocket 25 causes it to be raised or lowered and therefore corresponds to a stopping of the individual pictures of the film at a higher or lower point. Furthermore, it is Y olbvious that if the sprocket 25 is raised, itsposition of rest will be angularly not quite so far adyanced, while, if it is lowered, such position of rest will 'be further advanced.

Hence, raising the framing lever will notv only raise the lilm on account of the corresponding lifting of Y the l (intermittent sprocket,but will also raise the filmV on account of the stopped position of the sprocket being rotated clockwise. And if the framing lever is depressed the film will be similarly lowered for both of these reasons.

By referring to Fig. 5 it will be noticed that raisin the framing lever will cause the pin of the the slot of the driven member later; and that, in lowering the vframing Alever will cause such pin to engage earlier. The shut- `ter 32, which is driven -through the beveled gears 27, 28,`shaft 29, and gears 30 and 31, must, therefore, be advanced or retreated correspondingly if synchronism is 10 maintained between the shutter and the i11- termittent sprocket.

This adjustment 'of the sprocket is accomplished automatically through the .fork 40 Y and sleeve 43. As the support 16 is rotated in the one direction or the other, the fork eneva driving member to engage 4o-is correspondingly moved through tho 37 so as to slide' the sleeve 43 in the one direction or the other upon the. divided shaft 2 9. Such movement ofthe sleeve will cause rotation, relatively to one anotherfof the tw'o parts of the-divided shaft` since the PDS 46" in Said shaft ends are 110W shifted-in -the straight and spiral slots 44 vand45, respectively. -These slots being accurately-determined. inthe first place, the

shutter movement can be caused to take place automatically t'o just the right amount neces- 'sary -to compensate for the shifting of the sprocket. Y

While I have 'shown the'sleeve 3 2 ashaving one straight and one spiral slot, al1 that is essential is that these slots be spiral relatively to one another to' such an' extent as to'produce the necessary 'rotational movement between the two parts shaft 29. ,y

My improved framing arrangement can be operated without interfering in any way with the operation of the film display mechanism and Without stopping the machine.

While I, have shown a preferred form of the invention, changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention and the scope of the following claims:

l. In a moving-picture machine provided with an aperture adapted to have a. strip of linearly disposed pictures drawn thereover, a support carrying a shaft and having heads concentric with said shaft, ixed bearings for said heads, a Geneva driving member fixed to said shaft, means for driving said shaft, a Geneva driven member in coperative relation with the Geneva driving member, an eccentric 'shaft carried by the support and carrying said- Geneva driven member, a

of the divided sprocket wheel fixed to said eccentric shaft,

a divided shaft one end of which is operatively connected to the Geneva driving member, a shutter operatively connected with the other end of said divided shaft, and means for simultaneously rotating the su port and angularly adjusting the two en s of the divided shaft.

2. In a moving picture machine provided with an aperture adapted to have a strip of. linearly disposed pictures drawn thereover, a support carrying a shaft and having heads concentric lwith said shaft, ixed'bearings for said heads, -a` Geneva driving member xed to said shaft, means for driving said shaft, a'

Geneva driven member in coperative relation with the Geneva driving member, an eccentric shaft carried by the support and carrying said Geneva driven member, a sprocket wheel fixed to said eccentric shaft, a divided shaft one end of which is. operativel connected to the Geneva driving mem er, ashutter operatively connected with the other end 4of said divided shaft, a sleeve surroundsupport and a link a rotatable framing element or support comprising a pair of coaxial heads united by aweb, a central and an eccentric shaft carried by said support, the former carrying a v Geneva driving element and the latter a co- Geneva driven element at similar ends, one ofthe heads being recessed so as to inclose said Geneva elements, a cover for said recess so as to convert it into an oil tight casing, and a sprocket fixed to the eccentric shaft between the heads.'

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set m hand.

y BARTON A. PROCTOR.

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